“Ironically, it is only when the fiction writer obeys the laws of his or her art, rather than resorting to propaganda, that the sense of the Transcendent has a chance to exert itself. “When fiction is made according to its nature, it should reinforce our sense of the supernatural by grounding it in concrete, observable reality.”
― The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
― The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
“But the question isn’t simply what’s true; the question is what needs to be said and done now, in this place and in this moment given this particular history. To assert that “All Lives Matter” as a response to “Black Lives Matter” is not wrong in principle but temporally. It fails to recognize that “Black Lives Matter” is something that has to be said here and now because of a specific (contingent) history that got us here.”
― How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
― How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
“they must at last grow weary of their mutual repugnance, and begin to love one another! for love, not hate, is deepest in what Love ‘loved into being.”
― Lilith: A Romance
― Lilith: A Romance
“on a daily basis. To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before. It could be a conversation, the solution to a problem, a note to a friend, the rearrangement of furniture in a room, a new route home to avoid a traffic jam. What you make doesn’t have to be witnessed, recorded, sold, or encased in glass for it to be a work of art. Through the ordinary state of being, we’re already creators in the most profound way, creating our experience of reality and composing the world we perceive. In each moment, we are immersed in a field of undifferentiated matter from which our senses gather bits of information. The outside universe we perceive doesn’t exist as such. Through a series of electrical and chemical reactions, we generate a reality internally. We create forests and oceans, warmth and cold. We read words, hear voices, and form interpretations. Then, in an instant, we produce a response. All of this in a world of our own creation.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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